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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

First NAIL ART post! Featuring screams from the past and marbles!

Well hello there you beautiful bunch! 2
posts in one day?? Aren't you lucky!

For my first official nail art post I
decided to take a bit of a trip down memory lane by doing a “Then
and Now” type of post with the very first proper nail art I ever
tried. And by proper I mean PROPER! I've dabbled in stickers and
rhinestones in my high school years but this was my first full on
“balls to the wall” type of nail art. And I was quite proud of
myself back then.

When I discovered nail art about a year
ago, one of the first techniques I saw was dry marbling/needle
marbling and I loved the look! It wasn't too hard to do and was way
less messy than water marbling. So using this tutorialfromNail NerdI jumped right at it and gave it beans!

Like I said, I was quite proud of the
results back then but looking back at the photos now I can see a big
improvement. On to the “Now”...

Not only is my clean up job better but
the general state of my hands just looks healthier! It shows that a
bit of moisturizing and good cuticle care actually pays off! Also, I
have definitely improved on my ability to file my nails in a
semi-decent shape! Not there 100% but I'm getting there.

Nail Polishes used:

Sinful Colors Snow me white

Tip Top Nail Chic Purple Reign

China Glaze Spontaneous

Tools Used:

Small tipped dotting tool

Plastic freezer bag

Tweezers

Unfortunately I have no idea what the
exact polishes was that I used a year ago.

I started by laying down the 3 colours
next to each other quite thick on a plastic freezer bag. Then with a
small ended dotting tool I went in and made random swirls. The
bigger the dotting tool end, the thicker your swirls will be. Once
this was properly dry (I usually wait a day) I lifted it off the
baggie with the tweezers and cut it down into smaller individual
pieces so it was easier to place on the nails. On my nails I put on
a base of Sinful Colors Snow me white. When this was dry I
laid down a thin coat of topcoat, waited till it felt almost tacky
and then laid down the marbled pieces on my nails as shown in this
tutorial. I finished off the mani with Seche Vite, cleaned
up my edges with a pointed q-tip, a small paint brush and some
acetone and BOBS YOUR UNCLE!

Moral
of the story: If you're a blogger and are feeling down in
the dumps, look back at your work from a year or more ago and then
look back at your current work. I guarantee you there will be a huge
improvement and you will feel AMAZEBALLS!

I hope you enjoyed my first official
nail art post with me and that you will stick around for the many
more to come in the future!